What They Are Saying

Coach Al Arbour, on how their playoff adventures affected the Islanders: “They gained so much maturity. They're better now and they're more eager. Why, if I called a practice next week, every one of them would show up.”

George McGinnis of the Indiana Pacers, high scorer in the American Basketball Association this season, admits: “You don't stop me, you can't. In pro basketball when you have to play a guy one‐on‐one, you can't stop a guy who can score—and I'm a scorer.”

Henry Aaron, after hitting his fourth homer as Milwaukee Brewer, comments on his first season the American League: “I'm learning the pitchers but I've still got a lot to learn. Sometimes I feel like rookie out there.”

Muhammad Ali, chosen by Harvard students be the commencement speaker, is reluctant to discuss his speech: “I've prepared a lecture for them on the intoxication of life. I think it's too deep for most of you fellows.”

Brian Oldfield talks of the discus‐style technique with which he put the shot 75 feet: “Call it the Oldfield Spin or the Ogre's Orbit. Whatever you call it's mine and it's the style of the future. No one can touch me unless they adopt that style and right now I'm miles ahead of everyone else.”

Dick Allen, again with the Philadelphia Phillies, asked what he might do differently this time: “Maybe show up for a change.”

Gerri DeBusschere reacts to having her husband, Dave, assume the commissionership of the A.B.A.: “I can no longer ask the commissioner to take out the garbage.”

Manager Dick Williams of the California Angels, on his star hurler, Nolan Ryan: “His stuff and his style of pitching are like a right‐handed [Sandy] Koufax. But temperamentally he's like [Don] Drysdale. He's all business out there. I think he's a little meaner than Koufax.”

Bob Giegengack, coach of the United States track and field team that competes against the Chinese today in Canton, is glad no point scores will be kept: “Simply because one man beats another in a foot race doesn't necessarily mean his country is better than the other man's.”

Weston Adams Jr., president of the Boston Bruins: “There is no way I would recommend increasing prices next year. I think the people are paying too much for sports as it is.”

We are continually improving the quality of our text archives. Please send feedback, error reports,
and suggestions to archive_feedback@nytimes.com.